HACKING.md

Hacking

Django apps

This Django project has two major "apps": accounts and prints.

• accounts manages users. It implements a custom user class SiteUser. It has no custom views of its own, rather uses the django.contrib.auth views for login and logout.

• prints implements the Prints class and manages the printing operations. As of this writing, it implements only the submit_view to submit the texts for printing. It has a few helper functions defined in helpers.py. Printer operations are defined in printer.py.

Database schema

• Model SiteUser contains user info.

  siteuser
  typical user info..
  organization
  printer
  remaining_pages

  Perhaps remaining_pages ought to be removed from here and put to somewhere else.

• Model Prints contains info about the print requests.

  prints
  created_at
  user (FK)
  content
  pages
  pdf_path

Others

Please go through the source code.